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Nissan Motor Co. plans to offer cars with self-driving technology by 2020, a senior company executive said on Tuesday.

“Nissan Motor Co. pledges that we will be ready to bring multiple affordable, energy efficient, fully autonomous-driving vehicles to the market by 2020,” Executive Vice President Andy Palmer said during a presentation in Southern California.

Nissan is one of several major auto makers working to develop cars that can drive themselves. Silicon Valley search giant Google Inc. also is working on autonomous driving technology.

As we’ve previously reported here, consensus among auto industry thinkers is that by 2020, there will be cars on the market that can drive themselves through traffic jams, and by 2025, fully autonomous vehicles that don’t need a human to get from A-B. That’s good news for a number of reasons, and one of them — perhaps the biggest one of them — is that humans are actually pretty terrible at driving cars.